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[[Trope Namer|Named]] after [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB6fq9Aadwk#t=2m19s a line] from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB6fq9Aadwk parody video] "''[[Counter-Strike]]'' [[Bowdlerise|For Kids]]".

The [[World of Badass]] is often the setting for this trope. Compare [[Darker and Edgier]], [[Refuge in Cool]], [[Awesomeness Is Volatile]]. Not directly related to [[Rated "M" for Money]] in any way but the potential for intersection between the two is high.

 

 

Contrast [[Chick Flick]].

 

== Advertising ==

* A lot of old forties and fifties print ads. Hilariously sexist, always manly.

 

 

* Even for a cast dominated by Bishonen, we have Germany, a wurst-eating muscly fellow who also happens to be the [[Ho Yay|gayest gay]] [[Official Couple|who ever gayed.]]

{{quote|[[Axis Powers Hetalia|SUB]][[Drill Sergeant Nasty|MIT]] [[Germanic Depressives|TO MY MANLINESS!!]]}}

* ''[[Beelzebub]]''

* ''[[Berserk]]''

* ''[[Blaster Knuckle]]''

* ''[[Bleach]]'''s most prominent examples are probably Genryusai Yamamoto and Kenpachi Zaraki.

** Elfman's usually talking about things that are "Man", or what a Man should do, and all of his emotions are Man as well. It goes so far that in recent episodes in both manga and anime other characters question whether Elfman himself understands what he is saying.

** Don't forget Natsu.

** There was the following description of this manga in the internet:

{{quote|"Every page oozes massive amounts of testosterone. I once knew this girl who refused to read it because she was afraid she'd get pregnant."}}

{{quote|WARNING: The following opening sequence is the most manly sequence EVER CONCEIVED. The sheer amount of testosterone displayed may make you start karate chopping RANDOM OBJECTS!!}}

** Do not forget its prequel, [[Fist of the Blue Sky]]!

* ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]''

* ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]''

* ''[[Kaiji]]''

* ''[[Kinnikuman]]'' has muscular superheroes and supervillains duking it out [[Professional Wrestling]] style, typically while wearing nothing but a pair of short shorts. It's very ''title'' translates to "Muscle Man."

* ''[[NEEDLESS]]'', and half of the cast are [[Little Miss Badass]].

* ''[[One Piece]]''

* ''[[Rokudenashi Blues]]''

* ''[[Saint Seiya]]'': Phoenix Ikki epitomizes this trope in every way possible. And not too far away, Dragon Shiryu, who is at his strongest without his armor, in a series where almost every character has one and wearing it is supposed to heighten your abilities to their max.

* [[Soul Eater]]: BLACK*STAR WILL SURPASS GOD!!!!! YAHOOOOOOO!

* ''[[Toriko]]'' is about finding the most dangerous animals on the planet, beating them to death with your bare hands and then [[Food Porn|feasting on their eye-wateringly delicious flesh.]]

* ''[[Trigun]]''

* ''[[Vagabond]]''

* ''[[Vinland Saga]]''. It's about vikings. It'll put hair on your chest.

* ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]''. As a poster once put it "One does not simply walk into Iserlohn, after all. We're talking about ''knife-fighting Germans on spaceships'', people." Indeed, the show is filled with larger-than-life "galactic heroes". Special mention has to go to Oskar von Reuenthal and Walter von Schenkopp, though.

 

== Comic Books ==

* The [[Doom (Comic Book)|Doom comic]]. It's manliness and a half! It's a 12.0 on a 10.0 scale of manliness!

** RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS!

* [[Hitman (Comic Book)|Hitman]]

 

* ''[[Light and Dark - The Adventures of Dark Yagami]]''

* ''[[Thirty Hs]]''

* ''[[Latias' Journey]]''

* ''[[Brave New World (fanfic)|Brave New World]]''

** Not to mention shrugging off several rounds from the combine's <s> rocket</s> racket launchers and <s> machine</s> masheen guns while preventing the hug tower from blowing up long enough for the rest of humenkind to escape!

** He needs to kill fast and BULLETS TOO SLOW!! Also, in the machinima, he lifts a train and throws it at the 'enemys.'

* The Hunter in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', in pointed contrast to his “little” charges, the “Little Fool,” “Little Hero,” “Little Lunatic,” and “Little Weakling.”

 

* ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. Along with ''Platoon'' and ''Full Metal Jacket'', this suffers from [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]] syndrome. Most young men want nothing more than to attack a Vietcong village with helicopters and napalm, and then go upriver in a boat, whilst wearing a flak jacket and machine-gunning peasants. Despite ostensibly being anti-war films, all of the aforementioned make war look ''awesome''.

* Even though the movie itself doesn't qualify, [[Colonel Badass|Colonel Miles Quaritch]] from ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' ''definitely'' counts.

* ''[[Bloodsport]]''

* ''[[Ben-Hur]]'', mostly thanks to the [[Chariot Race]] and [[Galley Slave]] scenes

* ''[[Beowulf (film)|Beowulf]]''. A 7' tall CG [[Ray Winstone]] takes on a much taller, hideous Grendel with: No sword, No shield, No armor, no clothes of any kind. And wins. And proceeds to dismember his arm using a massive door from a Viking mead hall. Nuff said.

* ''[[Billy Jack]]''

* ''[[The Boondock Saints]]''

{{quote|'''Rocco:''' Men build things. Then we die. It's in our fucking DNA! It's what we do!}}

* ''[[Bullitt]]''

* ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]''

* ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]''

* ''[[Cobra]]''. [http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/cobra/ Stallone out-Arnies Arnie]

* ''[[Commando (film)|Commando]]''. So manly it ''doesn't need the girl!''

* ''[[Conan]]''

* ''[[Deliverance]]''

* ''[[Die Hard]]''

* ''[[The Expendables]]''. It's about a group of mercenaries sent to South America to depose a dictator, and it stars [[Sylvester Stallone]], [[Jason Statham]], Jet Li, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Mickey Rourke, [[Bruce Willis]], [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, and [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]]. It should go without saying, but here goes anyway: If you don't got balls, this movie'll give you a pair, and if you already have 'em, '''you'll get extras'''.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIZTgUxVa28 This fan-trailer].

* ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]''

* ''[[Gladiator]]''

* ''[[Indiana Jones]]''

* ''In Her Line Of Fire''. Yes, Mariel is manly and gets the chick.

* ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]''

* ''[[Jason and the Argonauts]]''

* ''[[Machete]]''

* ''[[Mad Max]]'' (especially ''[[The Road Warrior]]'')

* The ''[[Dollars Trilogy]]'' [[Spaghetti Western]] movies.

* ''[[Never Back Down]]''

* ''[[Ninja Assassin]]''. The title should tell you everything you need to know.

* ''[[Rambo]]''

* ''[[Raw Deal]]''

* ''[[RoboCop]]''

* ''[[Rocky (film)|Rocky]]''

* ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'', at least in the Asgard and Jotunheim scenes.

* ''[[Total Recall]]''

* ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'': I'M A LEAD FARMER MOTHERFUCKA!

* ''[[True Lies]]''

* Any [[Swashbuckler]] starring Errol Flynn.

* ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]''

* Most war movies, especially ''[[The Dirty Dozen]]''.

** Lee Marvin tends to make a movie manly just by showing up.

** Bonuse points to Gable for saying [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|the greatest line in the history of cinema]]: after 10+ years of kissing [[Gone with the Wind|Scarlett's]] ass and getting nothing but attitude, he finally decides to walk out. And when she asks what she's supposed to do now...

{{quote|''<big>Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.</big>''}}

**** Yes. To elaborate: [[Clark Gable]] nearly destroyed an entire industry just by taking off his shirt in that flick.

** What about ''[[Tommy]]''? Or ''[[The Wall]]''?

** Don't forget ''Paint Your Wagon'' Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood for the Manly Musical.

* [[No Country for Old Men]]

* [[The Raid]], the entire movie is basically people shooting or beating other people.

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[The Icelandic Sagas]]'' and ''Gesta Danorum''.

* The modus operandi of ''[[Baen Books]]''

* ''[[Conan]]''

** For that matter, anything by "two-gun Bob" [[Robert E. Howard]], ever.

* ''[[Dune]]''

* ''[[Fight Club]]''

* ''[[Flashman]]'', in an odd way.

* ''[[The Iliad]]'', ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'', and the rest of the [[The Trojan Cycle|Trojan Cycle]].

* ''[[Lankhmar]]''

* ''[[Shogun]]''

* ''[[Snow Crash]]''

* There exists an entire subgenre of pulp fiction known as men's adventure.

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', Riding a Zombie T-Rex. Nuff said.

* [[The Executioner]] series, featuring the role model for [[The Punisher]], [[Mack Bolan]].

* ''[[Tarzan]]''. A muscular jungle guy, who fights big apes and crocodiles. 100% manly!

* [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]]'s ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'', or at least the character, Randolph Carter. In Dream-Quest, Carter scales mountains, rides Nigh-Gaunts, allies with the Ghouls, is the cause of several full-scale wars and goes toe-to-toe with {{spoiler|Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos.}} Then in Through he Gates of the Silver Key, {{spoiler|he ascends reality, discovers he meaning of life, becomes an alien then travels millions of light-years back to Earth with nothing but his stash of space-weed to help get him through it.}}

* [[Rudyard Kipling]], Robert Service, Henry Rider Haggard and several other Victorian authors.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* [[Star Trek: The Original Series|Captain James T. Kirk]]

* ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]''

* ''[[24]]''

* ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]''

* ''[[Married... with Children]]''

* With [[Hot Blood]], hot girls, and football, there's no other way to describe ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]''.

* ''[[Ninja Warrior]]'' (Essentially ''[[American Gladiators]]'' [[This Is Your Premise on Drugs|on crank]].)

** For that matter, [[American Gladiators]] itself. The third co-host of the show was Larry Csonka, the manliest man to ever play fullback, and the events that include wrestling, an urban assault course, beating each other with sticks, a game called Powerball that was the deadliest version of Red Rover ever, and finally, The Eliminator.

** Don't forget John Winchester. He is Dean's role model, after all.

*** Lets not forget Bobby Singer.

* [[Black Sabbath]]

* [[Crowbar]]

* [[Disturbed]]

* [[The Doors]]

* [[Johnny Cash]]

* Jón Leifs

*** That must mean the 1812 Overture qualifies as well.

* [[Knorkator]]'s ''Der Ultimative Mann'' (the ultimate man) tells women why they don't really want Mr Nice Guys.

* [[Led Zeppelin]], SO MUCH.

* [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]], for a more classical take on manliness.

* [[Megadeth]]

* [[Metallica]]

* Pentagram (for ''[[Rock Me, Asmodeus|evil]]'' men!)

* [[Public Enemy]]: Fight The Power!

* [[Rammstein]]

* Ratt

* [[Rob Zombie]]

* [[The Rolling Stones]]

** ''"He asked us, 'Be you angels?' and we said, 'Nay, we are but men! ROCK!'"''

* [[Van Halen]]

* [[The Who]]

* Greece's 2010 Eurovision entry ''Opa'' is VERY much this trope.

* [[ZZ Top]]

* [[Thrash Metal]]. Fast drumming, heavy, brutally melodic riffing, and harshly chanted vocals. Nothing says manly like that.

 

== Other ==

* [[Patrick Stewart]]

* Most artwork by [[Frank Frazetta]]

* [[Vladimir Putin]] has based most of his public persona on this perception.

* How has [[Bruce Campbell]] not been mentioned yet?

* Or [[Theodore Roosevelt]]? He was seen by many in his own time as a god among men!

 

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** A demi-god revives a walking war engine the size of the Empire State Building simply by touching it and saying "BE HEALED, MACHINE SPIRIT!"

** A crazed, speed-obsessed Ork ramps his kustom bike off a cliff and slams through 12 Void Shields to enter the nuclear core of a walking war engine the size of a building and kills the entire crew while he's still on fire from breaking the shields. The burning skulls of the engine's drivers are now mounted on that Ork's bike.

** Newborn infant travels through a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] unharmed, crash-lands on an icy hellhole and subsequently gets [[Raised by Wolves]]. Eventually he beats the most powerful human in existence in a drinking contest and then gets to lead an army of [[Space Romans|space Vikings]] across the galaxy. Face it, Leman Russ is the pure distilled essence of manliness.

** The Orks and Space Wolves are basically entire factions of Manliness. To wit:

** If ever there was a game that was made of pure 100% mansauce, Warhammer would be that game!

** God himself could not sink this game!

*** Correction: The only possible way God himself could sink this game would be by destroying the entire planet Earth by blasting it down to it's component atoms, then hurling said atoms into the sun, then throwing the atom filled sun into a black hole. Then probably throwing that black hole into another black hole. But that would be cheating. And it still probably wouldn't work. [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|Bitch]].

** In the grim dark future of the 41st millennium, even the [[Amazon Brigade|nuns]] walk around with flamethrowers and pistols that shoot miniature rockets.

*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrS-r_b8dmI And more gameplay footage has shown], among other things, cutting Orks in half with chainswords, shooting Orks in da face with bolters, [[Crazy Awesome|shooting Orks tied to missles who are shooting at you out of the sky,]] and stomping a downed Ork's skull in with your mighty power armored boot. [[Up to Eleven|This game is so manly, your balls will grow balls]].

** In normal [[High Fantasy]] settings, the [[Our Elves Are Better|elves]] are somewhat effeminate, the humans resemble real-life humans, and the dwarves are manly. In ''Warhammer'', the elves are manly, the humans are beyond manly, and the dwarves [[Up to Eleven|make Chuck Norris look like a milk-drinking wimp]].

*** The Warriors of Chaos make them all look like dickless pansies. They're an incredibly muscular, bearded, daemon-worshiping, [[One-Man Army]] [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Viking warrior race]] who thrive in the most inhospitable areas of the Old World, and who are clad in spiky, skull-studded Conan gear. And their best fighter tend to be eight foot tall Norse demigods clad in really,''really'' intimidating plate armour (with skulls and spikes everywhere), wielding weapons most men struggle to lift and who are able to [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|wrestle Bloodthirsters to the ground.]]

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Anarchy Reigns]]''

* ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' is quickly becoming manliness embodied. The main character has as much raw rage as Kratos, if not more, and takes on demons, gods, demigods, and anything else that gets in his way with pure manliness and rage to keep him going. At one point he fights an enemy that is larger than the planet, gets into a punching contest with the enemy's finger that's so intense that he breaks his arms off, then kills the guy with one final punch. And this is just an early boss fight. The following boss fights are even crazier. The best part? Asura's reaction to being faced with an opponent the size of the planet and tries to crush him with a finger the size of a mountain? [[Bring It]]. Oh, and the next few levels, Asura will fight enemies with just his feet, head, and rage, since he destroyed his arms taking out the last boss. But Asura doesn't care, that's more than enough. Asura only has five weapons: his fists, feet, head, his rage, and his planet sized cahones.

* ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'': Lu Bu, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei best exemplify this trope. Deng Ai as well.

* ''[[Brutal Legend]]''. [http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=27541 This] is the best descriptor that ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' could have possibly received!

* ''[[Cho Aniki]]'', though depending on who you ask it may be the [[Macho Camp|wrong kind of manly]].

** On that note, ''[[Muscle March]]''.

* ''[[Contra]]''

** This [[Let's Play]] takes it to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8sElnS1rfQ extreme levels!]

* [[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]: One man, alone, armed only with power tools, takes on a ship full of space zombies. And his most powerful weapon is his almighty boot.

** In the future, the engineers are more badass than an entire warship full of armed soldiers.

* ''[[Devil May Cry]]''

* ''[[Doom]]''

** In fact, about 2/3 of the cast in this game is either manly overload, or hot damn chicks.

** Except Jin. Who falls mostly into [[Ambiguously Gay]] [[Sissy Villain]] territory, especially around Ragna. {{spoiler|Ironic considering that he becomes Hakumen, part of the above 2/3}}. And even Jin becomes an insanely badass [[Determinator]] about halfway through the sequel.

* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' Try and pretend the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SuJ5T9sfAA trailers] ''aren't'' fueled by this trope. Whether your character is a man or a woman, the 100% badass is mandatory.

** As evidenced by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkB43FHalAo this kickass fan movie ]

** ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]'', the game that has required 12 long years to gather the required amount of manliness necessary to do this character justice.

* ''[[F-Zero]]''; this game not only brings us [[Memetic Badass|Captain Falcon]], but Samurai Goroh, Black Shadow, Super Arrow, and tons of other muscular masked racecar drivers. In a Japanese game with [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], there is only one [[Bishonen]] in the game (Jack Levin) and even he's manlier then most!

** Forget the ''men''! Mrs. Arrow, one of the few women in this sausagefest, outright ''shames'' most of the men in the series. She's easily one of the best racers and is depicted as a confident [[Hot Amazon]] [[Amazonian Beauty|with the muscular physique of a female bodybuilder]]. She also happens to [[Henpecked Husband|emasculate her husband]], who is a bona-fide ''[[Superhero]]'' and the '''''defender of Earth'''''. In spite of this, she's still eye-candy, has a ''very'' [[Impossible Hourglass Figure|feminine figure]], and is ([[Tsundere|at heart]]) a sweet, caring, nurturing, loving housewife and friend who [[Spoiled Sweet|grew up]] as an [[Ojou]] with an aptitude for music and [[Omniglot|linguistics]] and a fondness of [[Socialite|high class culture]]. Try wrapping your heads around ''that''.

** And in Adventure Mode, you can wrestle a bear with your bare hands, and if it rips one of your arms off, you can then beat it to death with your freshly severed arm. If it rips off your legs, quit being a pansy, just keep on it! If it rips off your other arm, you can bite it to death!! And, once dead, you can sit down on it's corpse and drink a beer while you wait for the bleeding to stop. What, healing potions? What healing potions? All a man needs is a beer and a short sit down while they wait to see if they're gonna bleed to death. And even if you lose both arms and both legs, you're expected to keep going.

* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'': The whole Internet is [[Even the Guys Want Him|GAR]] for Archer.

** This only apply to the characters and even then they are not even trying to "manly." The games sell themselves as action dramas, with heavy doses on the plot and drama. The games are fairly free of [[Testosterone Poisoning]], especially the senseless kind.

* [[Quake]]

* ''[[Mass Effect]]''

** ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' in the words of Miranda Lawson {{spoiler|He's a hero, a bloody icon.}} obviously referring to y'know who.

* ''[[Mercenaries]]''

* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'': FINISH HIM!!!

* ''[[Painkiller]]''

{{quote|''Painkiller is in the same bucket as ''[[Serious Sam]]'' and the original [[Doom|DOOMs]] in that it serves as an antidote to fancy-pants complex modern FPSes. There are no stealth elements, no [[Fetch Quest|key hunting]], no [[Escort Mission|escort quests]], no [[Voice with an Internet Connection|dorky support characters dribbling in your ear]], no [[Videogame Objectives|mission objectives]] besides '''kill everyone'''. It's just you, some guns, and the entire population of Murdertown between you and where you need to be.''|Yahtzee, severely [[Caustic Critic]] of [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/57-Painkiller Zero Punctuation].}}

* ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]''. Alex Mercer kung fu kicks helicopters and tackles tanks, making them explode!

** The game it was a [[Spiritual Successor]] to, ''[[The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction]]'', is pretty much the same. '''You are ''[[The Hulk]]''! And ''nothing'' can stop you!'''

*** You can ''catch a cruise-missile mid-flight'', and ''throw it at a robot the size of a building''. You can ''skateboard on top of a bus, destroying everything in your path''. You can ''crush a car into boxing gloves''. You can ''smash your fists together'' so hard that ''everything in a hundred-foot radius of you is '''sent flying'''''.

* ''Rastan''

* ''[[Resident Evil]] [[Resident Evil 4|4]]'' & ''[[Resident Evil 5|5]]''.

{{quote|'''MCChris:''' Meanwhile in [[Resident Evil 4]] they're like 'BITCH! zombies comin up the hill shoot 'em in the head! shoot 'em in the head! Grab the shotgun! you don't gotta reload we done did that shit for ya! What are ya pressing select for? you don got time to make a profile bitch zombie's in the room ''SHOOT 'EM IN THE HEAD'' shoot em in the head! he killed your parents! His axe is on fire! SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD'}}

*** We might add that the trailer features a man weathering the full force of a dragon's flames with nothing but a wooden shield, then ''[[Sonic Scream|shouting it down]]'' before summarily kicking its ass.

*** ''Skyrim'' will go down in history as one of great examples of this trope. The game is set in a land of fantasy Vikings, now in the grip of civil war. Around you, a great empire has crumbled, and its remnant struggles against Nazi elves. The world is about to die, devoured by a dragon god whose reptile servants already roam the skies. And you're the legendary Dragonborn, the only one who can stop them. You kill dragons in droves and eat their souls to gain their might.

* Any of the ''[[Warcraft]]'' games, but specifically all installments with Samwise Didier as the main artist. Dear lord, even the ''[[Our Elves Are Better|elves]]'' are gigantic beefcakes you wouldn't find outside of a professional body builder contest.

** Until [[World of Warcraft]]'s first expansion came along and wrecked it, by adding Blood Elves.

*** Which only get that reaction because [[Reality Is Unrealistic|they're the only race with normal human proportions]].

** There is a certain (repeatable) quest, the premise of which is that your character is admiring a giant spear, not sentient, or magical, or enchanted. But it radiates so much manly that your character looks to the horizon, spots a Proto-Drake and decides that only one of you will live to see the dawn. To reiterate: ''This spear is so manly that simply LOOKING at it inspires you to kill dragons. With your bare hands, no less.''

** Starcraft2 gives us Tychus Findlay: a [[Space Marine]] in [[Power Armor]] (that's not all that necessary,as he's already huge and muscular), who smokes enormous cigars, drinks hard, fights hard, carries a minigun, pilots a gigantic war machine that qualifies as a [[One-Man Army]]... Face it: You want to be this guy.

*** {{spoiler|Up until the point that Raynor shoots you in the face because of your [[Face Heel Turn]].}}

* ''[[Darksiders]]: Wrath of War''. You play [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|The Horseman of War]] as he goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against both gun-wielding [[Our Angels Are Different|Angels]] and Demons with a BFS named Chaoseater as well as other demonic toys. It's basically [[The Legend of Zelda]] with the sheer testosterone of the [[God of War]] games.

** You open chests by ''punching them''. You open locked doors by ''stabbing them with knife keys''.

* [[Final Fantasy X]] gives us the tag-team duo of Jecht and Auron. Wither in shame as we enumerate their manliness:

** Jecht [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7UhFYi8S4k hurls meteors]. Prior to that, he was a professional athlete superstar with the body of a bronzed god, perpetual shirtlessness, and masculine facial hair. When he ends up in Spira, he's immediately put in jail for being a raging drunken jackass. About the only mark against his manliness is his lousy treatment of his son (which tried to be tough love and just ends up being emotional abuse), but in the ends he takes responsiblity and mans up to his failure, thus attaining perfection.

** Auron is a living legend of Spira, the only guardian ever to survive a successful pilgrimage. Despite {{spoiler|being dead (from an unrelated incident following the pilgrimage)}}, he refuses to rest and instead walks the world as a battle-scarred veteran who's utterly unimpressed by anything, speaks only when neccessary, and tries to raise his dead friends' kids to become the heroes he and his posse couldn't be, all while smacking behemoths clear out of the battlefield in single strokes and lighting things up with cyclonic hellfire created by whipping up a whirlwind with his sword and throwing his jug of booze into it. And when he's done with all that, he heads over to the [[Kingdom Hearts]] universe to back-talk Hades and nearly kill Hercules with one hand.

* Sazh in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''. Specifically, {{spoiler|in crystal stasis. See [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101220203016/finalfantasy/images/3/3c/Sazh_crystal_sketch.jpg this picture]}}, where he looks like he's about to get up and kick ass {{spoiler|even though he's solid crystal}}. Also, Chocobo in the 'fro, 'nuff said.

* This trope is apparently the reason [[Beauty and The Beast|Gaston]] hasn't been in any of the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' games, aside from being too similar to [[Tarzan (Disney film)|Clayton]]. Actual examples from the series, most of which are {{spoiler|incarnations of [[Big Bad]] Xehanort}}:

** [[Kingdom Hearts II|Xemnas]], voiced by [[Norio Wakamoto]] in Japanese.

** [[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep|Terra]], possibly the manliest playable character, who uses [[Rock Steady|rock]] and [[Casting a Shadow|darkness]] powers, wields [[BFS|a giant Claymore]] [[Mighty Glacier|of a keyblade]] and looks much, ''much'' more like an actual male than [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|Sora or Riku]]. {{spoiler|And he would also later be [[Demonic Possession|possessed]] into becoming Xehanort himself, who would then be separated into the above two characters}}.

** ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' itself is nothing to sneeze at in this department. Given the amount of anime series with [[Hot Blood]] involved in most installments, it's no wonder that all the manliness rubs off on the most quiet or wimpy characters.

* Mutant League Football and its sequel Mutant League Hockey.

* ''[[No More Heroes]]'' at times. We have Death Metal, covered in tattoos and with decorative bolts in his face. A little before you get to him there's a picture in his mansion of him sittin' with a hot woman. Destroyman, although insane, has a codpiece that fires super lasers. In the sequel, Travis himself gets a great manly moment in the form of one of his Dark Side powers, in which he turns into a friggin' tiger and shreds mooks to pieces. We also get Charlie McDonald, who fights alongside his throes of under-cleavage showing, [[Uncanny Valley]] invoking cheerleaders. Letz Shake returns as a robot that looks like a giant penis. Also, Travis's bikes, both of which are called the Schpeltiger.

* ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'': John Marston. Just... John Marston.

* ''[[Vanquish]]''.

* The makers of ''[[Pokémon]]'' seem to be trying to give their newest [[Wolverine Publicity|poster child]], the [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|intimidating legendary turbine-tailed]] [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]-like [[Shock and Awe|thunder]] [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon]] [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Zekrom]], this vibe. Second to Zekrom is Gourdon, a ginormous [[Kaiju]] like pokemon, with power over earth.

* In ''[[Tales of Graces]]'', when someone speaks (and [[Memetic Mutation|firin' his]] [[Kamehame Hadoken|lazorz]]) [[Badass Back|with his back]], the manliness meter gets broken. Ladies and gentlemen, say hi to Malik Caesars.

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'': Saxton Hale.

 

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* Manish Man, the Manly Minotaur, of ''[[Adventure Time]]'' is an example of this trope. But he seems to be a more joyous character than most listed.

* ''[[Conan the Barbarian|Conan the Adventurer]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x_4nCj4TI0 The manliest intro ever.]

** An actual response to the video:

{{quote|I had testicular cancer before I watched this.

** Subverted and played straight. The band deals with less "manly" issues like body image, abandonment issues, and group therapy, but they also make things that aren't really Capital M Manly and make them so, like coffee (which they will make blacker than the blackest black times infinity) or golf (which Nathan will play alone, hatefully, in a rainstorm).

* ''[[G.I. Joe Extreme]]''. The series actually ''toned down'' this compared to the toys, which were downright [[Testosterone Poisoning]].

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': WANG FIRE! Also, '''THE BOULDER.'''

* The Argentinian animated movie called "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGo3WsnSSXg Boogie The Oily One]" contains every single archetype from any kind of action film (film noir, western, gangster film, etc.) and combines it with lots, lots of [[Black Humor]].

* ''[[Ultramarines]]: The Film''

* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' like rock 'n' roll, heavy metal, gangsta rap, beer, cigarettes, breaking things, fighting, guns, explosions, fire, and chicks with big boobs so they pretty much LIVE for this trope.

* ''[[Megas XLR]]''. What's more manly, a [[Cool Car]] or a [[Super Robot]]? Apparently, the answer here is ''both.''

* ''[[Inhumanoids]]''

* ''[[Extreme Dinosaurs]]'' has a seriously testosterone laced [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiujBfxTPWQ intro]. [[Autobots Rock Out|Hard rock]] intro coupled with scenes of [[Heroic Build|muscled-up]] dinosaurs fighting each other pretty much screams this trope.

* ''[[Street Sharks]]'', seriously, what could be manlier than muscular mutant humanoids with shark heads and razor sharp teeth going around riding motorcycles and bursting through walls every five seconds?!

* ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]]'' is possibly the greatest animated example of this trope. All but one (the scientist's daughter) of the women characters are naked at one point, and none of them (with the possible exception of Taarna) act remotely human. World War II pilots are shot and turn into zombies. It's also loaded with sex, violence and a kick-ass 80s rock soundtrack. The ultimate example of animated testosterone.

* [[Swat Kats|SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron]].

* ''[[Exo Squad]]'' of all the cartoons in the 90's this is the only one which has the most gratuitous amounts of [[Beam Spam]], and explosions that can only be matched by ''[[Gundam]]''.

 

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